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November 25th 08, 01:51 PM
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No More Free TV (was Log-Periodic Antenna Design)
ml wrote:
In article , "Ralph Mowery" wrote: "Rich Grise" wrote in message news  My current UHF antenna is a 14" Radio Shack clip lead clipped from the center of my coax to the venetian blind. I have to hand-adjust it for the channel, weather conditions, phase of the moon, etc. I can do this because I can _see_ an indication of signal strength. Well, with this new Fascist "No More Free TV" crap, I'm gonna need a real UHF antenna. My budget is exceedingly limited, but I have a supply of materials (GTAW filler rod, with some coppery-colored coating, so it solders like a dream, and is as stiff as piano wire) to build an antenna with. It may not take too much antenna. I picked up one of the converter boxes and hooked it to a 432 mhz beam at 70 feet and got 21 stations on the auto tune. Then to a 9 element M2 2 meter bem and it picked up 29 stations. This was at the end of about 130 feet of low loss rg-8 size coax and then 25 feet of rg-6. Several of the stations were the same transmitter,but differant chanels on the TV. no more free tv?? where do you live? here in the usa over the air tv is , was and shall remain free in feb it will switch to digital however shall still be free Digital is a major step toward "conditional access". |
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